作为一个爱好，和很多音乐爱好者一样， "我终极写歌的目标是让人们能更简单的通过它们交流，当然我希望我们所做的能让所有的人留下深刻记忆."Lifehouse 的主唱兼吉他兼歌曲创作于一身的 Jason Wade这么说到. 他和乐队贝斯手 Sergio Andrade 、鼓手 Rick Woolstenhulme (还有自称自己为 "guitar guy" 的Stuart Mathis, 演奏于早期一些作品，参与一些舞台表演) -和其他乐队，如Pearl Jam, Fuel, Everclear and matchbox twenty一起到一些大学校园去演奏宣传他们的音乐，共享他们认知的音乐理念.这支洛杉矶的乐队在发行他们的No Name Face (发布于Oct. 31, 2000, DreamWorks制作)仅仅十个星期后， 就凭借"Hanging By A Moment"获得Billboard's Modern Rock的第一宝座可能对这个乐队来说太突然了。"一切都太不可思议了"Jason提到目前乐队取得的成绩 "我们并没有预期到现在, 但我们十分高兴有这么多人能听到我们的歌. 不过我真的无法解释其中的奥妙"Lifehouse的音乐就是如此不可思议，在似乎平坦的乐路中闪现出他们自己的音乐风格,听似普通平淡的歌中，你能体会出Lifehouse音乐的突出的生命力，一种他们独有的张力 

the "external and internal noise" in your life which makes it hard to make decisions. Unique sound.9. Breathing - their follow-up to HBAM. When Jason sings the first line, you immediately know that it's one of the best songs on the cd.10. Quasimodo - the angriest song on No Name Face. Good to listen to when you're mad at everything.11. Somewhere in Between - the song makes me cry. It's just so emotional.12. Everything - ditto. This is the BEST song on the album. I wish they'd release it, but it's too long, and I don't want FM radio to ruin it. It's so beautiful, so full of emotion that you'll get choked up. A perfect ending to a perfect CD.二Fantasic music!!, September 12, 2004 Reviewer: Stanley Climbfall (USA) I bought this CD soon after it was released, and I'm glad that people are starting to take note of this great band. (If you can't tell, I'm a huge LH fan - just look at my name!) This CD is great. Jason Wade (songwriter/guitarist/vocalist) is absolutely amazing on here. You can tell this guy has some major talent. 1. Hanging by a Moment - This was LH's mega-hit. Everyone's probably heard it by now. It's obvious why it was successful, so I don't think I need to talk about it too much... 2. Sick Cycle Carousel - It's a great song that has great lyrics to match. A great thing about Jason's voice is that you can always feel the emotion in it during all of his songs. 3. Unknown - This is another great song. I love the way the guitars play during it. It really attracted me to this song. 4. Somebody Else's Song - I think everyone can relate to a song like this. This song also shows off Jason's vocal range. Again, the guitars sound great - everything just works. 5. Trying - I think this is my favorite song on the CD. It really grew on me after a while. The lyrics are haunting, and so are the instrumentals. It's quite subdued, but it is absolutely gorgeous. 6. Only One - Another great song. Again, it shows off all the talent in this wonderful band. 7. Simon - This is another one of the quieter songs, but it is so beautiful and touching. You can tell that Jason really thinks and reflects on what he's writing. It isn't any of the stuff you hear on the radio - the "angst"y type stuff that seems to be all the rage. 8. Cling and Clatter - A good, solid song. The lyrics are really interesting, especially towards the end. Love it! 9. Breathing - This was another of LH's singles, but it didn't take off like "Hanging by a Moment." I think the radio audience just wasn't ready for something like this, but it is a great song. Again, it is a softer song, but it makes Jason's voice shine all the more. 10. Quasimodo - I really wonder why this song wasn't a single. It's a harder, edgier song than the other stuff on here, but I love it. It's one of those songs that can be really comforting at times. 

11. Somewhere in Between - Another thoughtful song that can actually make you think. There is some lovely instrumental stuff in here that matches with the mood the song creates. 12. Everything - One of the best, and longest, songs on the album. It starts off softly, but it grows and grows until it reaches the climax. The instrumentals here are beautiful. This song is so relaxing and calming. Just some quick background stuff on LH: If you didn't know, Lifehouse used to be a Christian rock band, and the songwriter Jason Wade was a missionary kid. That's why the songs may have that type of influence in them. But they are a great band, and I think there background is what makes them so unique and great. Their music is much different than the "rock" heard on the radio - it is quite distinctive. But I really love this band, and they deserve all the success they get. So spread the word!! Get all your friends to go out and buy the CD! You'll all love it.三The perfect band for any rock listener, August 27, 2004 Reviewer: Eddie "A Veteran Rock & Metal Listener" I usually listen to more heavy stuff and used to just skip any soft songs cuz well they sound like pop. If this is what you do then this band will be totally different. I got introduced to lifehouse by listenin to Trying on third watch. The next day, i went to the music sore and got the cd. Here is my review.. Hanging By A Moment: Good song, too much like the calling's music. Its sitll good but its not my favourite. (4/5) Sick Cycle Carousel: I heard this song and just put it on repeat. Brilliant. The lyrics and the vocals, just everything. (5/5) Unknwn: Again a good song but not my favourite. (4/5) Somebody else's song: I love this one. The lyrics are really good. (4.5/5) Trying: The song that started it all for me. Great ballad wth really meaningful lyrics. (5/5) Only One: Its a really good song, just didn't really hook me (4/5) Simon: Its a song about people who have been bullied in the past. I related immediately (4.5/5) Cling and Clatter: You probably wont like this at first but it grows on you. I love the chorus (4/5) Brathing: Really really good (5/5) Quasimodo: It has a good message delivered really well (4.5/5) Somewhere in Between: Its a been slow. It has gr8 lyrics but the music is just too boring (3.5/5) Everything: Did not get this song. Everybody loves it but i not so much (3.5/5) I hope this review was helpful. There are at least 8 songs in this album that would keep anyone hooked.. A nice addition to the collection..

This phase of his life ended, however, when his mother decided to relocate the family to Los Angeles. "I didn't want to move at all," he attests. "I'd finally made all these friends, and Washington had been a really a comforting place for me during the divorce. I thought it would be home forever."So, at 15, Jason moved to L.A., where he hooked up with bassist Sergio Andrade and began blossoming as a songwriter. "I really didn't know anyone. Serge lived next door and we had a lot of stuff in common, like playing basketball and running," he says. "He'd just started playing bass, so we hung out a lot. We spent all our time jamming out in the garage, writing songs and helping each other get better."Originally from Guatemala City, Sergio left his homeland at age 14 to move to California. He, too, had a musical parent. "My father played piano," he confirms, "and I ended up playing keyboards." He gravitated toward rock, pop and Latin styles, also playing trombone and flute in the school orchestra.Sergio later switched to drums and then bass, becoming somewhat obsessed with the instrument - "All I did was play bass," he says. "I knew Jason was a talented guy, but that wasn't what mattered to me," Sergio continues. "I was still learning English and really didn't know anyone. I just wanted to be involved in music and make some friends."The two paired with a drummer (who has since left the group) and after honing their sound for a few more months, inaugurated a Friday night residency at a local school auditorium. The gatherings were casual events where the band was afforded onstage jam time (some of these jams became songs, among them "Everything"). "They had a really good P.A. system there and we could do whatever we wanted," Jason reports. "We got smoke machines and lights and basically turned it into this little club scene. Kids would come from all over, and we started filling the place up. At one point we were getting, like, 450 people out every week. That went on for two years."Word-of-mouth about the band soon reached No Name Face producer Ron Aniello, who let them make some rudimentary recordings at his home studio.Drummer Rick Woolstenhulme also heard about the band through the grapevine. Born and raised in the Arizona farm town of Gilbert, he says he was one of those kids who was always pounding on things. "My mom plays piano, my dad plays piano and guitar and my brother plays guitar," Rick relates. "I guess they decided I was the next musician in the family, so they got me this beat-up old kit and I started taking lessons right away." Rick went on to attend The Los Angeles Music Academy and has played drums and percussion ever since."I was playing with this other group," he says of his earliest, accidental exposure to Lifehouse, "and Jason and Serge were practicing in the next room - I'd bump into them in the hallway." A while later, someone suggested to Rick that he check out a band called Lifehouse, who were looking for a new drummer. "The name didn't ring a bell for me. Even after I officially met these guys, we didn't make the connection right away," he recalls. "It was a couple weeks of 'I've seen you somewhere' and 'you look really familiar' before we figured it out."

Remarks Jason: "It was one of those weird coincidences. As soon as we met and started playing with Rick we knew he was the guy. It just clicked. We'd all go to the beach and Burger King and just do nothing together. We knew right away it was going to work." Attests Rick: "It was really smooth - I just sort of snapped on."Sergio says of the band's collaboration: "Jason would usually have the song written before he'd bring it to us. Then we all kind of arrange it together. The way we work on songs feels really natural, which I think has a lot to do with us being tight as a band and as friends."Aniello saw the progress Lifehouse was making but felt the band needed more time to develop before recording an album. So Jason kept on writing, and the trio continued to rehearse intensively and play gigs, including some at local colleges. Comments Sergio: "We went through a lot of phases trying to find our own sound. We learned from our mistakes. We'd see tapes of ourselves onstage and go, 'This is horrible.' But we'd just say, 'Okay, we gotta fix it,' and go back and practice some more."Jason stayed in touch with Aniello. Two years passed, and then he played "Breathing" for the producer. "He got really excited about it," Jason says, "and he played it for his friend Jude Cole, who's our manager now. "I was blown away by what I heard," says Cole. "Here were these teenagers skateboarding around their tract-house neighborhood and banging out this really deep music in the garage. I was totally moved by 'Breathing' - it was the kind of song that captures a moment in time, the kind you always remember where you were when you first heard it. Jason was only 17, but he already had that incredibly resonant voice. I was also impressed by his writing and guitar work. He had an instinctive understanding of how to create a mood. Even before Ron started playing me their other stuff, I knew I had to work with this band." Cole immediately called DreamWorks Records principal Michael Ostin, who had been Cole's own A&R representative when Cole was a recording artist. In 1998, DreamWorks funded Lifehouse's first real demos, which Aniello produced.Many of these tracks made their way to No Name Face. "When we tried to re-record some of the songs for the album, we just couldn't get the same spirit the demos had," Jason says. "The demos had been recorded right after the songs were written and even though they weren't perfect, they were so real, so honest." "Trying," for instance, is fundamentally the same recording Jason made at Ron's home studio when he was 15, with one significant change: "I had to go back in and re-record my vocals for the album because my voice had changed."The rest of No Name Face was also laid down mostly at Aniello's home studio. "Ron's studio is right down the street from us," Jason says. "If we'd been working really late, we'd just spend the night there. We'd wake up, have breakfast with Ron and get right back to it. He's been like a father to me in a lot of ways, and the whole recording process had this homegrown, family feel that made it so easy to be creative. I wrote 'Hanging By A Moment' in the studio while we were finishing some other stuff."

Jason's trust in Aniello helped make these sessions a learning experience. "I came in wanting it to be all slick and fancy," he concedes. "I was so excited to be in the studio making a record - I wanted every instrument and every effect on the planet. Ron said pretty early that he felt the record should sound organic, that the production should be simple and transparent. I'd have all these ideas, and we did use some of them, but after a while I realized he was right. The record needed to sound more raw."This sonic edge was indeed the right complement to Lifehouse's emotionally charged songs. Evidence of that can be found in the thousands of calls placed to Modern Rock stations across America requesting "Hanging By A Moment.""The best thing about all this is being able to stay on the road," says Jason. "We've been meeting new fans in cities all over the country. It's so cool to hear what they think about the music, and it makes me feel so good when they say that one of our songs has helped them get through a rough time, that they were able to apply it to their own life."To be sure, this is the sort of opportunity only afforded a band on the way up. But Jason and his mates have had no trouble staying grounded amid all the hubbub. After all, it's not like they've actually met Pearl Jam. "We love Pearl Jam," Jason says. "Once we got over the shock of actually being on tour with them, we went backstage to hang out with them. But security would never let us through the door. We tried a bunch of times and could never get in. I'm sure the band didn't even know about it. And, of course, security had no idea who we were - we were just some fans."Being "just a fan," a music lover like any other, is what Jason is and always wants to be. "My ultimate goal in writing songs is simply to connect with people," he says, "and I hope that comes across in everything we do."

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